They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

Say you only hire purple workers. If purple workers strongly prefer to work with one another instead of with other groups, why might you prefer to hire a less productive purple worker than a more productive nonpurple worker at the same wage?

Genie was an unguided missile. Since it was armed with a nuclear warhead, accuracy was not really necessary […]